Welsh actor Matthew Rhys returned home last night to boost efforts to raise funds for a Cardiff theatre – and hinted at a more permanent return.

Rhys, star of US hit drama Brothers & Sisters, held an intimate fan evening at the Park Plaza’s Kuku Club to raise funds for the £6m facelift of the Sherman Cymru youth theatre in Cathays.

And he revealed he was considering a move back to Wales, or London, after the show was axed after five seasons.

The actor, who is the patron of the theatre, grew up in Whitchurch and went to Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, and said Sherman Cymru was the first theatre he went to as a young boy.

An Evening With Matthew was a chance for fans to meet the actor, who also starred as Dylan Thomas in The Edge of Reason and in Patagonia with Nia Thomas and Duffy.

The theatre, on Senghennydd Road, still needs another £400,000 to complete its revamp, and is closed to the public during the works before a provisional reopening early next year.

But Rhys also revealed he is considering moving to London, or even back to Wales, after US network ABC confirmed it was axing Brothers & Sisters last week.

He said: “I’m looking at my options on the West End. With Brothers & Sisters being cancelled, I’m back on the audition trail like millions of others, trying to get some work.

“I’ve thought about what I’m going to do, certainly. I’m being drawn at the moment to London and to return to the West End.

“But to be honest I’m keeping my options open. I’ve got three options open to me – to stay in the US, to go to Wales and to go to London – so I feel quite lucky to have a few choices, so I won’t limit myself geographically quite yet.”

He also said that he was “a little sad” that the series was ending, but said that it was “incredibly fortuitous” to have been running that long.

“After that amount of time, I think our storylines had been exhausted. We had a whole lot of really dramatic stories, so in that sense it wasn’t a huge surprise,” he said.

“It would have been nicer for us if we could have known that we were finishing, so we could have finished on a more dramatic note.”